(crossposted to RASFS)
On Apr 25, 4:45 pm, "Mike Bass" <mikeba...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello everyone. I'm a screenwriter and currently working on a sci-fi
movie.
Oh, dear.
> I need to know how you could destroy the time dimension. Is it possible?
A
> time black hole? Thanks to everyone for your time.
>
> I have a time-energy device already in the script. The explanation for
that
> is:
> We add time as a fourth component to Maxwell's equations for
> electro-magnetism. We build a system that's un-symmetrical in the
fourth
> component and extract energy from the vacuum using logarithmic beams.
Could
> this overload and rip a hole in time-space, create a time black hole
that
> sucks time into it? Hey, I'm a writer forgive my intelligence. Thanks
again.
> (don't laugh too hard it could hurt you)
Um, logarithmic beams? As opposed to what, linear beams? Hyperbolic
beams? I mean, dialog and exposition can be hyperbolic (as in
possessing hyperbole), but not beams.
Somewhat more seriously, the spacetime we seem to be living in can
be described mathematically as a four-dimensional manifold with a
particular "signature", namely 3+1 where the 3 are the spatial kinds
of dimensions and the +1 is the temporal kind all by itself. How do
the two "kinds" of dimensions differ? Some say they don't and what we
think of as three-dimensional objects changing as their "matter waves"
propagate along the time dimension is "really" just our limited
perception of a slice of a four-dimensional solid thing that cannot
change.
You may be wondering if other signatures are possible and one answer
is "what do you mean by 'possible'"? It's certainly possible to write
mathematical descriptions of such spacetimes, but whether they can be
said to exist in any "real" fashion is sorta moot since the kind of
matter-energy we're made of can only exist in the 3+1 kind of
spacetime.
Frinst a 2+2 spacetime would only have two spatial dimensions (think
of it as Cartoonland) but have two time dimensions; how would that
work? One is what we call "regular" time and the other being
perpendicular to it would maybe be "probability" time or something?
This sort of thinking leads some to speculate that we live in a 3+2
spacetime, with the second time dimension being where the "other"
versions of reality live, in some (science-fictional) versions of the
"many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Anyway if you could change the signature of a chunk of spacetime
from 3+1 to 4+0 you'd have a "place" where physical objects could have
four mutually perpendicular measurements (length, width, depth, and I-
don't-know-what-th) but would be unable to change because there's no
time as far as they're concerned.
Mind you this "place" would have limited extension within the 3+1
spacetime it's embedded in so eventually (as seen from outside)
objects stuck therein would revert to normal. What living beings stuck
within would experience is literally unimaginable, not that that's
ever stopped actual science fiction writers from trying to imagine it.
Your "time-energy device" sounds like something from the so-called
Montauk Project/Philadelphia Experiment which usually involves Top
Secret hardware derived from the works of Nikola Tesla.
Good luck getting anybody to buy it.
Mark L. Fergerson
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